We all have been humming and dancing to the tune of “Jai Ho” since last Sunday. After all who does not want to get some cheer by being part of the celebration. Celebrating Slumdog Millionaire’s winning 8 Oscars! This song and soundtrack were part of the winning pick.

Let us interpret, postmortem, dissect and understand the Hindi lyrics of “Jai Ho” song in English.
If you have seen the movie, all the more better since we will be relating some of the song lyrics with specific scenes of the movie.

To see the list of all the words with my twist on remembering their gender please visit the category Is it a HE or a SHE.

5. Anger: gussaa: masculine

Tip To Remember: It is a well-known fact that women tend to be more patient than men, therefore their tendency to jump up and down in anger is less compared to that of men. So, ‘gussa’ is categorized as masculine. gussaa is a “HE”

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1. daftar (दफ्तर): Masuline: Office is classified with masculine gender in Hindi. Office is a ‘HE’.

Tip to remember: Historically, man was the hunter/gatherer and woman took care of the home. Therefore the daftar (modern replacement for hunters and gatherers) is of masculine gender. Also recollect that earlier tip to remember for the word ‘kaam’ (work). kaam is also of masculine gender. So, men do kaam at the daftar to give women then pleasure of shopping (khariid-daarii:Feminine)

Don’t muse too much over the sentence formations for now. Just remember the gender classification of these words. This will help at lengths when you dive into learning Hindi or if you are already there, you will swim or float rather than sink in your learning adventure. Do notice how the verb and adjective follows the same gender classification as our chosen word. (shown by bold letters aa or ii).

Just as These and Those take “are” in a senence eg. These are tables. These are boys. These books are good. Those chairs are white. Similarly in Hindi “hai^” takes place of “are”.

Let’s try some sentences

Vocabulary words:

houses:ghar apples: seb friends: dost

tables: meze^ fruits: phal kyaa: what

where: kahaa^ big: baRaa

Sentences with “these” “ye”

These are houses. ye ghar hai^. ये घर हैं|

These are apples. ye seb hai^. ये सेब हैं|

What are these? Ye kyaa hai^? ये क्या हैं?

Where are these? ye kahaa^ hai^? ये कहाँ हैं?

Are these fruits? kyaa ye phal hai^? क्या ये फल हैं?

Senetences with “those” “ve”

Those are friends. ve dost hai^. वे दोस्त हैं

Those are apples. ve seb hai^. वे सेब हैं

What are those? ve kyaa hai^? वे क्या हैं

Where are those? ve kahaa^ hai^? वे कहाँ हैं?

Are those big? ve baRe hai^. क्या वे बड़े हैं

Pronunciation tip: ‘ve’ is often pronounced as “vo” for colloquial purposes (never in writing). This does not mean pronouncing ‘Those’ as ve is incorrect, of course ‘ve’ is the correct pronunciation. Generally people pick “vo” when saying ‘that’ and ‘those’ in Hindi. My point is if you hear ‘vo’ when you expected ‘ve’ don’t dwell on it.